Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.

But it was smell that carried memory.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

Literature is about telling stories.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

Fighting in cities is a totally different endeavor than obviously fighting out in the open.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.